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Camilla Cowley

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Who’s Who

Pastoralist, activist

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Partnerships in Reconciliation

 

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Mar·12

Joan Marjorie Coxsedge (Rochester)

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(5 January 1931- )

MLC Victoria 1979-92, Parliamentarian

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Mar·12

Edith Dircksey Cowan (Brown) OBE

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(2 August 1861 – 9 June 1932)

Parliamentarian and community worker

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Mar·12

Jessie Mary Cooper (McAndrew)

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(1918-1993)

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Mar·12

Amelia Martha (Millie) Best MBE

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(29 April 1900 – 14 November 1979)

Party organiser and parliamentarian

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Mar·12

Lyn Berlowitz

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(1903-July 1998)

Parliamentarian, businesswoman

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Mar·11

Helen Crisp (Wighton)

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(26 September 1916 – 25 May 2002)

Academic and adminstrator

Organisations: Australian Federation of University Women

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Mar·12

Geraldine Cox

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(10 June 1945 – )

Founder of Cambodian orphanage

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Mar·12

Major General Elizabeth Cosson

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Who’s Who

Australian Army General

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Mar·12

Alice Chisholm

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Who’s Who

(1856 – ?)

Wartime aid worker

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Mar·12

Sally Chapman

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(1960-2009)

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Mar·12

Eva (Bernard) Buhrich

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(1915-1976)

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Mar·12

Agnes Brown

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(1868-1954)

Christian missionary in Korea

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Mar·12

Margaret Blackwood

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(26 April 1909 – 1986)

Botanist, geneticist and servicewoman

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Mar·12

Bessy Cameron

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Who’s Who

(1851-1895)

Nyungar woman and school teacher

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Australian Women’s Archives Project

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Mar·12

Florence Broadhurst

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(28 July 1899 – 15 October 1977)

Designer, businessswoman, singer, banjolele player

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Mar·12

Louisa Briggs

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(14 November 1836 – 6 September 1925)

Indigenous activist, nurse

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Mar·12

Doris Blackburn

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(18 September 1889 – 12 December 1970)

Politician, peace activist

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Mar·12

Lou Bennett

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Lou Bennet

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Indigenous singer, song writer

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Mar·11

Karen Beck

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(13 June 1952 – )

Australian Federal Police Officer

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Mar·11

Jean Beadle (Miller)

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(1 January 1868 – 22 May 1942)

Labor leader, reformer and social worker

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Mar·11

Gracia (Hilda) (Parry-Okeden) Baylor

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(8 October 1929- )

Parliamentarian

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Mar·11

Daisy Bates

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(1863-1951)

Anthropologist and journalist

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Mar·11

Florence Austral

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(16 April 1892 – 16 May 1968)

Opera singer

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Mar·11

Thea Astley

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Thea Astley

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(1925-2004)

Writer

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Mar·11

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